Hezbollah strikes military bases, Israel bombs Beirut | Conflict in the Middle East

Lebanese Hezbollah intensified its attacks on Wednesday in several regions in Israel, notably reaching Tel Aviv.

Fighting is also raging in southern Lebanon, where the Israeli army announced that six soldiers had been killed, including an officer, bringing to 47 the number of its soldiers killed on Lebanese territory since the start of its ground invasion , on September 30.

Israeli radio said the clashes between Israeli soldiers and Hezbollah fighters lasted three hours, indicating that the wounded and dead were evacuated under Hezbollah fire.

Israel’s new Defense Minister, Israel Katz, has promised not to not lift your foot facing Hezbollah, against whom the Israeli army is waging an intense aerial bombing campaign across Lebanon.

We will not cease fire, we will not let up, and we will not allow any agreement that does not include the achievement of the objectives of the war, and in particular the right of Israel to act alone against any activity terroristMr. Katz said on his first visit to the Israeli army’s Northern Command base since taking office the previous week.

Throughout the day, Hezbollah carried out several attacks against military infrastructure in Israel. The Shiite party claimed to have reached with its missiles the Ministry of Defense and the headquarters of the army headquarters in Tel Aviv. He also said he hit several military bases with explosive missiles and drones.

In total, environ 60 Projectiles or missiles were launched from Lebanon towards Israeli territory on Wednesday, the Israeli army said in the evening.

Eight people killed in Lebanon

In Lebanon, bombings targeted the southern suburbs of Beirut on several occasions, while a separate strike against a densely populated town south of the capital left eight people dead, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health.

The Israeli army launched an intense bombing campaign in Lebanon on September 23, targeting in particular the strongholds of Hezbollah, and launched a ground offensive in the south of the country on September 30.

More than 3,360 people, the majority civilians, have been killed according to the Lebanese authorities since the start of clashes in October 2023 between Israel and the Shiite movement.

Two Israeli civilians were killed Tuesday by rocket fire, bringing to 45 the number of civilians killed in northern Israel by fire from Lebanon.

Hezbollah opened a front against Israel on October 8, 2023, the day after the unprecedented Hamas attack that sparked the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip.

Broadcast of a video of a hostage

Furthermore, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, another armed organization allied with Hamas, published a clearly recent video of one of these hostages, Sasha Trupnaov, a 29-year-old Russian-Israeli, alive.

This horrible video […] underlines the urgency of the return of […] hostagesWho have no more time to wasteafter the trials they endured and while they face increased risk of losing their lives after more than a year of detentionreacted the Families Forum, the main association of relatives of hostages, in a press release.

Of the 251 people taken hostage on October 7, 2023, 97 are still captive in Gaza, 34 of whom were declared dead by the Israeli army.

Israeli retaliation for the October 7 attack left 43,712 dead in the Gaza Strip, according to the latest report from the Hamas Ministry of Health for this territory, deemed reliable by theHIM.

Security Council condemns attacks against peacekeepers

The Security Council of theHIM condemned on Wednesday the attacks in recent weeks against the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Lebanon (UNIFIL), calling all parts to respect the security of the peacekeepers.

In a statement, Council members condemn several attacks targeting positions of the UNIFIL and injured several peacekeepers.

They do not name the authors of these incidentsbut cite the dates of several of them.

Like on October 29, when a rocket fired probably by Hezbollah or its allies hit the headquarters of the UNIFIL. Or on November 7, when five peacekeepers were injured in an Israeli strike and on November 8, when the UNIFIL accused the Israeli army of damaging one of its positions in an action described as deliberate and direct.

With information from Agence France-Presse